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Robbery suspect shot by accomplice in wild St. Johns police chase

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Perkins

St. Johns deputies arrested three robbery suspects during a wild police chase Sunday in which one of the men was accidentally shot by one of his accomplices, authorities said.

The robbery occurred about 8:30 p.m. at the Kangaroo on Wildwood Drive and U.S. 1, police said. Two men entered the store, including one with a handgun. They took cash and cigarettes before fleeing. No one inside the store was injured.

Nearby deputies were searching for the suspect vehicle when it was spotted leaving a nearby mobile home park. The vehicle sped off after a deputy tried to stop it on Wildwood Drive. Deputies gave chase and deployed pointed stop sticks in the area of Cheyenne Drive.

The vehicle went through the stop sticks, but was run off the road by a patrol car south of Treaty Park. The three men fled on foot into a heavily wooded area and two were captured a short time later.

One of those men, identified by police as Tyrus Udell Kornegy, 28, had been accidentally shot in the back by an accomplice during the pursuit, police said. Kornegy was taken by helicopter to UF Jacksonville Health and admitted with life threatening injuries.

The second captured suspect, identified as Deshawn Renord Perkins, 23, complained of chest pains and was also hospitalized.

The third suspect intially gave a false name and was caught early Monday in the 1900 block of Wildwood Drive. He was later identified as Khris Antwanlyons Tobler, 26.